Visited here on the 8th leg of the Thames Tipple 28-11-09. This was another one of Fin’s bonus pubs that we visit whilst on the way home. There were ten/eleven cask beers available including, Dark Star Winter Meltdown, Pictish Porter, and Burton Bridge Thomas Sykes Ale amongst the more often seen likes of Hopback Summer Lightning etc; The beers were fine, the place quite busy and the locals were very friendly. I must say as decent as it was I probably prefer the charms of the nearby White Horse at Hedgerley over this. One thing definately to mention about this place, at £1.60 for a half of 10% Thomas Sykes ale at The Royal Standard either the pricing was very wrong here or extremely reasonable.

As above. On a recent visit, beers on cask were: Cains Bitter, Hopback Summer Lightning, Hydes Jekyles Gold, Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, Adnams Bitter, Burton Bridge XL Mild, Tom Wood Shepherds Delight, Old Speckled Hen, Everards Tiger Bitter & Caledonian Deuchers IPA. Each cask is usually all used up after 3 days or so, so the beer is always in peak condition, and there should be plenty of new beers each time you visit.